Establish global brand governance across its social media accounts

Unlock competitive intelligence or trends through social listening

Future-proof the company’s marketing, social, and PR operations

Known around the world for leading beauty brands like NARS, Clé de Peau Beauté, and Shiseido, the company had a constant deluge of social media mentions and conversations that it struggled to monitor and extract insights from in a unified manner. “We were interested in acquiring a partner that would span the multitude of countries we operate in, be able to scan billions of conversations that are happening on a daily basis, in the languages and platforms of our customer's needs,” explains Amit Naik, SVP, Global Head of Analytics at Shiseido. The Meltwater suite gave the company the ability to leverage consistent intelligence solutions that brought its worldwide team in sync.

Creating globally consistent KPI frameworks for a world of brands

When Amit Naik first took the reins as Shiseido’s Global Head of Analytics in 2016, more than a dozen of the company’s brands — operating across 20 markets and in multiple languages — managed their social media listening, marketing, and management efforts using a variety of standalone, incompatible tools. Shiseido used the Meltwater suite to unify and continue to build the company’s global social media capabilities.

“We really had no consistent way of evaluating what that brand meant in multiple regions,” says Amit. Meltwater helped Shiseido create a custom analytics dashboard using Explore, its media monitoring and social listening platform. Integrating a wealth of social data and metrics into a unified, consistent tool, let Amit and his team understand the company’s global presence at a glance. With an overarching evaluation and tracking framework in place, they can easily customize their dashboards and benchmarks for the nuances of each brand’s regional markets. 

Meanwhile, Shiseido consolidates its social publishing and engagement with Engage, Meltwater’s social media management and analytics platform. A unified interface gives team members a place where they can interact with Shiseido’s community on different social media platforms. That and other features like content scheduling, publishing, and easy reporting build the engagement capacity of Shiseido’s leading brands like NARS Cosmetics — which boasts nearly 10 million followers across its English-language YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok accounts alone. With an all-in-one platform, the company can offer the kind of integrated, multi-channel brand experiences modern consumers have come to expect.

Today, Shiseido leverages the Meltwater suite across all of its brands and markets. “We were able to create a globally consistent KPI framework that then made the shift from return on marketing objectives, all the way linking it to return on investment. It's an evolutionary journey and Meltwater has been part of it with us.” 

“We have come a long way from when we started, where we had fragmented data sources for evaluating social media, to now where we have a consolidated single source of truth. Having that one platform that enables us to evaluate our customer perceptions, as well as our marketing impact across multiple markets in a consistent and globally insightful manner, is what makes Meltwater different from its competitors.”

To have a truly holistic understanding of its presence worldwide, Shiseido also needs a comprehensive look at how it's performing against competitors. The company uses Explore to monitor its numerous competitors in multiple markets and develop benchmarks to evaluate its own brands’ outputs. “If we have a campaign that did really well, but it's not up to mark with a competitive benchmark, it's good for us to know and then course-correct,” Amit explains. 

As the beauty industry continues to trend toward super-personalized, hyper-responsive marketing, Meltwater empowers Shiseido to stay ahead of the curve. Amit and his team use sentiment tracking and word clouds to classify and understand consumer conversations and segment audiences based on their interests and affinities. “​​We have moved away from the vanity metrics of followers to where we’re really looking at engagement and content resonation,” he says. “Those are meaningful improvements that we don’t think we could have done alone.”

With the ability to tap into and understand a firehose of conversations about the company’s brands and competitors, it can craft social media and marketing messaging that speaks to the zeitgeist and is backed by proven audience resonance data. Plus, real-time social listening helps the company identify and get a head start on budding trends, benefitting marketing and product development teams alike.

Once consumed with the task of wrangling vast, disparate data sets, Shiseido brands now easily access the valuable information within. “For me, the entire research journey that Meltwater facilitates is really the favorite part. It helps me go from data to insights to action,” says Amit.

Collaborating in growth and capability-building

Shiseido hasn’t just benefited from the evolution of the Meltwater suite over the years; the beauty brand has also collaborated in plotting the course as a member of Meltwater’s advisory board. Meltwater’s 2017 acquisition of Klarity, an Asian market social media analytics platform, helped Shiseido make inroads into the Chinese market. It also uses the AI-driven influencer marketing platform Klear, which Meltwater acquired in 2021, to manage and measure its influencer campaigns.

Already well-attuned to the continued convergence of PR, social media, and marketing, Meltwater ensures that Shiseido is also well-positioned to take advantage of continuing advances in AI, machine learning, and natural language processing. Most recently the beauty industry leader began using the Meltwater Consumer Intelligence suite for obtaining AI- and NLP-enabled insights. Using Meltwater’s suite of solutions ensures that Shiseido’s social and customer experience strategies can remain integrated and scalable as they continue to evolve along with the beauty industry.

Shiseido-Customer Story.pdf

“For us, Meltwater has been both a strategic partner in the long-term, as well as a very tactical and operational partner where they actually help us improve our campaigns and customer interactions on a daily basis,” says Amit. “Overall we've been lock stepped with them on their acquisition journey, and it's good to feel that our voices are being heard.”

Evolving Partnership

Meltwater Customer Stories: Shiseido

As one of the largest beauty companies in the world, Shiseido knows the challenges of modern global brand management well. Encompassing over 50 luxury brands across 120 markets, it needs a social listening and media monitoring solution that helps bring its customer experience to the next level. Shiseido partners with Meltwater to turn its once-fractured social operations into a company-wide social strategy.

Discover how Shiseido uses Meltwater to optimize their global social media strategy and align marketing teams around reporting.

Shiseido — Meltwater Customer Story

How Shiseido aligns its global social media strategy using Meltwater

Shiseido

Discover influencers who are passionate about its mission

Centralize and streamline influencer management processes

Generate Advertising Value Equivalency (AVE) 19x the budget

“I advocated to add influencer marketing to our Meltwater contract for three reasons. First, the quality of its data and analytics helped me finally solve how to make data-driven decisions about potential participants. Plus, I was excited about the ability to run all of our communications work from one central platform. Last, but certainly not least, Meltwater provided excellent and extraordinary customer service.”

Cancer Support Community Customer CaseStudy.pdf

Cancer Support Community (CSC) is dedicated to providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care- - with all services offered at no cost to patients, survivors, caregivers, and their loved ones. Like many nonprofits, CSC needs to maximize the impact of every marketing dollar so the organization, and the community it serves, can thrive. Influencer marketing emerged as an authentic and efficient way for CSC to reach its target audiences beyond its existing social media followers and paid social media advertising. They chose Meltwater’s influencer marketing solution to build and sustain a program that could bring its services to even more people who need them.

See how the CSC used Meltwater's influencer marketing solution to boost returns on their advertising spend.

Cancer Support Community — Meltwater Customer Story

How the Cancer Support Community Used Meltwater to Achieve a 19x Advertising Value Equivalency

Cancer Support Community

Establish strategic relationships with top press contacts

Access responsive, proactive customer support

“The measurable impact of deploying Meltwater for us has been hearing good things from our press contacts. It is really nice to know that they're seeing us, they're hearing us, and they're in the loop on what we're doing.”

MW_Customer-Story-Brochure-USPTO.pdf

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) helps ensure national commerce continuously develops and grows. As the sole federal agency granting U.S. patents and trademarks, keeping media outlets across the country — as well as internal stakeholders across departments — informed of updates and changes is a complex, constant task. The USPTO relies on Meltwater to keep its press and media operations running at peak efficiency.

See how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office uses Meltwater to streamline and strengthen its media relations workflows.

USPTO — Meltwater Customer Story

How Meltwater Helps the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Streamline Media Relations

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Build comms strategies using real-time media and social intelligence

Proactively promote effective media coverage

“Working with public agencies, non-profits, and higher ed, we are very aware that our clients are accountable to taxpayers and their communities. Meltwater has been a really important tool for making us more efficient in serving our clients while providing a resource that, otherwise, most public agencies would not be able to afford.”

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Tripepi Smith is a California-based marketing, technology, and public affairs firm that public agencies count on for single-source communication support. Since 2021, it has used the Meltwater Suite to be the one-stop shop its clients need. From content creation to digital marketing to public relations, Tripepi Smith helps cities, counties, joint powers authorities, and other local government clients reach their communication goals with efficiency. Powered by Meltwater analytics and insights, it’s equipped to face the future of PR head-on. Here’s how.

Learn how Tripepi Smith uses Meltwater to help its public agency clients better interact with the public they serve.

Tripepi Smith - a Meltwater customer story

How Tripepi Smith uses Meltwater to build public trust

Tripepi Smith

Track and manage their global image and
brand presence

Monitor media and social media across varied
global markets

Track and report on the success of campaigns and brands worldwide

Meltwater Customer Story - Geely.pdf

The Meltwater advantage

Geely Holding Group is the world's bestselling Chinese automotive group and its brands are household names across the globe. But
Geely isn't resting on its laurels. The company is committed to world-class research and development, leading the way on innovation
and sustainability, and continuing to expand its share of the global automotive market.

To help it achieve that, Geely Holding Group needed a powerful communications tool that could help it not only spread the good
word about its products but also track the conversations the media were having about the brand.

Read this Meltwater customer story to learn how Geely uses Meltwater to track media sentiments in real time.

Geely — Meltwater Customer Story

How Geely Drives Valuable Consumer Insights with Meltwater

Geely

Challenge

"The daily morning and afternoon alerts help us stay on top of the pulse of the industry and react accordingly to the trending topics and themes. We can tailor campaigns and address the issues in time and spread awareness within the public."

Solution

MW Case_Save the Children_IN.pdf

Summary

Save the Children is an independent global NGO present in 120 countries who are leading the way in rights of minors. In India, they're active in 20 states and have changed the lives of 6.1 million Indian children. They believe every child deserves a bright future and run programs to reach the most deprived children with the aim of providing them with opportunities to learn, a healthy start in life and protection from harm.

Discover how Save the Children uses Meltwater media intelligence to increase reporting efficiency, justify their worth and optimise campaigns.

Meltwater Customer Stories: Save the Children

Save the Children

The Challenge

“With our previous tool, we never got it off the ground more than the use cases we needed to fulfill with it. The barrier to entry was so high that we only had 1-2 people comfortable and versed in using it. With Meltwater, we were able to democratize the platform within our team because of its ease of use, which provided a quick path to satisfy our curiosity and get the depth of knowledge we needed. ”

The Solution

“It’s key to keep clients informed about how their campaigns are actually landing with consumers. Metrics are always a starting point for strategic adjustment and without great data you are just left with questions. Meltwater’s stream of information allows us to make informed decisions for clients and gives them something to celebrate about when things go off without a hitch.”

MW_Customer-Story-Brochure-Archrival.pdf

Archrival

Archrival is a U.S. based youth culture agency that reinvents how brands connect with and win the hearts and minds of young adults, teens to twenty somethings. The beating heart of what they do: creative built on the approach that human-powered marketing places influential and motivated advocates at the center of a business’s most important goals. Through its human-centered approach to insights, influence, and creativity, Archrival has masterminded true brand movements across a variety of industries including retail, sports, CPG, gaming, activism, entertainment, hospitality and travel.

Learn how Archrival is using Meltwater to drive human-powered marketing through the use of social, consumer and influencer intelligence.

Archrival - Meltwater Customer Story

How Archrival utilizes social, consumer and influencer intelligence for human-powered marketing

Seamlessly integrate influencer marketing into the brand’s overall marketing strategy

Start using trustworthy data-driven metrics for identifying influencer potential

Promote transparency and collaboration throughout the entire Starlight organization

"We use Meltwater Influencer Marketing for the entire influencer audit process. We are able to get a sense of who the influencer is by looking at past collaborations and content, and what type of impact they will generate with metrics like True Reach and Engagements. True Reach is our favorite metric!”

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Starlight Children’s Foundation is an Australian non-profit organization with a mission of brightening the lives of seriously ill children and their families. Since 1988 the organization has partnered with health professionals across Australia to ensure they are delivering programs that support the total care of children and teens. 

As a non-profit, Starlight Children's Foundation relies heavily on donations. Over the last two years, the brand had been engaging in influencer activity to boost brand awareness and promote charitable giving.

Read this customer story and learn how Starlight Children’s Foundation Australia is using Meltwater Influencer Marketing for doing good with influencers.

Starlight Children’s Foundation

How Starlight Children’s Foundation Australia is using Meltwater Influencer Marketing for doing good with influencers.

Build a brand ambassador program worth $70,000

Slash influencer discovery and vetting time by 70%

Achieve $250K in earned media value (EMV)

Customer Story-Woodloch.pdf

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Woodloch Resort is an all-inclusive, family-friendly vacation destination nestled in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. Along with being ranked within the top 10% of hotels worldwide on TripAdvisor, the resort was named Best Family Resort by USA Today in 2019, 2021, and 2022. That success isn’t without intention; the brand routinely launches large-scale influence campaigns to increase bookings, build brand awareness, and attract media attention. The winter travel season is of particular importance to the resort, which is why they rely on Meltwater to boost the ROI of its holiday campaigns.

Read this customer story and learn how Woodloch Resort boosted press coverage by 2,100% with Meltwater's influencer marketing solution.

Customer Story: Woodloch Resort

How Meltwater Helped Woodloch Resort Boost Its Press Coverage by 2100%

Woodloch Resort

Save six hours a week on influencer management work

Integrate data-driven insights such as audience demographics into the decision-making process

Automate campaign reporting and analysis, saving time and increasing efficiency

“With Meltwater Influencer Marketing, work that once took us 8-hours now takes 2-hours. Not only that, but the quality and clarity of our work is greatly improved.”

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Nuun is a hydration company that created fun drink tablets that are boosted with electrolytes. Based in Seattle, Nuun is now the must-have hydration product, with tablets sold in over 30 countries. Influencer marketing is a key component of the brand’s marketing strategy. Impressively, the team handles all influencer campaigns in-house. 

But, as the company grew in popularity, so too did the scale of their campaigns. Nuun needed a tool that would support their growing needs by automating manual work and elevate their strategy with data-driven capabilities.

Read this customer story to learn how Nuun Hydration saves over 300 hours every year using Meltwater Influencer Marketing.

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Nuun Hydration saves over 300 hours every year using Meltwater Influencer Marketing

Nuun Hydration

Discover and vet the most appropriate influencers for their campaigns

Understand audience demographics to ensure they are aligned with campaign goals

Build comprehensive influencer marketings proposals for their clients

Founded in 1908, James Madison University is a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It is one of the higher education institution in America, with 115 degree programs on the bachelor's, master's, educational specialist, and doctoral levels.

Discover how over 100 Students at James Madison University learn data-driven influencer marketing with Meltwater Influencer Markeing.

James Madison University

100+ Students at James Madison University Learn Data-Driven Influencer Marketing with Meltwater

Establish a methodology for identifying influencers that aligned with creative concepts

Use True Reach to estimate influencer potential and have data-driven conversations with clients

Beat campaign performance predictions by integrating performance metrics and audience sentiment

AKQA is an international agency that combines creativity and technology to design seamless brand experiences that create valuable and long-term connections between brands and people.

Read this customer story and discover how creative agency AKQA generated 4M impressions in one day using the Meltwater Suite.

AKQA x Meltwater Customer Story

Creative Agency AKQA Generates 4M Impressions in One Day

AKQA

Manage 178+ influencers across all brand campaigns

Customer Story-Kreg Tool .pdf

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For Kreg Tool Company, making woodworking fun is vital to expanding its customer base. That’s why the brand partners with influencers who can make the art of woodworking more approachable while highlighting the Kreg product line’s range and ease of use. 

Kreg's influencer program is vital to attracting customers, so they need an efficient, scalable solution for managing their partnerships. The brand chose Meltwater’s influencer marketing solution so it could leave confusing spreadsheets behind.

Read this Meltwater customer story and learn how Kreg Tool used Meltwater to gain $17.8M in earned media value. Read now!

Kreg Tool - Meltwater Customer Story

How Kreg Tool Used Meltwater to Gain $17.8M in Earned Media Value.

Kreg Tool

Supercharge content creation via 56 influencers

Reach 5.8 million users with a $5 million earned media value

Track influencers, posts, and metrics at a granular level

Customer Story-Filament.pdf

The agriculture industry might seem like an unlikely candidate for influencer marketing. But it’s one that relies heavily on consumer trust, especially in a world where buyers are more discerning than ever about where their food comes from. 

For agriculture marketing company Filament, building trust and driving impactful change starts with them. The work they do for farmers creates a trickle-down effect that impacts other farmers, agriculture companies, brands, consumers, and greater humanity. So when a few of its clients needed help promoting their horse and chicken feed, Filament used Meltwater Influencer Marketing to recruit the help of influencers to spread the word authentically and enthusiastically.

Read this customer story and learn how Filament leverages Meltwater Influencer Marketing to find agriculture influencers.

Filament x Meltwater Customer Story

All industries can benefit from influencer marketing, including the animal and agriculture sector. Here’s how Filament leverages Meltwater Influencer Marketing to find agriculture influencers.

Filament

Save 6-hours per-influencer due to an automated payment process

Ensure payments are processed swiftly with all the necessary tax forms and billing requirements

Improve the work-flow between brand managers and accountants, and collaboration between influencers and the Steller team

“Without Meltwater Influencer Marketing, there would be A LOT more work. In fact, Meltwater has basically saved us an entire job’s worth of manual work. Our accountants are much happier!”

See what Meltwater can do for you!

Steller is a storytelling platform that empowers users to come together from around the world and share stories and experiences. The in-phone app lets users tell beautiful stories through images and videos that can be easily shared with the Steller network of like-minded individuals who are passionate about travel and beautiful content.

Read this customer story to learn how Steller used Meltwater Influencer Marketing to automate the influencer payment process.

Steller x Meltwater Customer Story

How Steller Used Meltwater Influencer Marketing to Automate the Influencer Payment Process

Steller

Identify and vet the most relevant influencers for its campaign

Manage the influencer outreach program for its campaign

Track results and measure ROI to prove the success of this activity

Huawei is a Chinese multinational communications company with sales revenue of $60B. Today, the company is the 2nd largest seller of smartphones after Samsung, and before Apple.

Read this customer story and discover how Huawei raised brand awareness and changed public perception, with a Key Opinion Leaders program.

Huawei x Meltwater Customer Story

How Huawei raised brand awareness and changed public perception, by launching a Key Opinion Leaders program.

Huawei

Operationalize its influencer strategies to better support clients and execute campaigns

Trade manual calculations for automation, organization, and access to historical data

Expand its offerings to clients and realize more opportunities for growth

Customer Story- Gild Creative.pdf

Storytelling is at the heart of company culture. Stories allow companies to put into context how they’re innovating, differentiating themselves, and continuing to meet the needs of their audience. 

For Gild Creative Group, a conscious marketing agency, creating these stories for clients includes the assistance of influencers, but the process in which they discovered and strategized with influencers needed some fine-tuning.

Learn how Gild Creative Group uses Meltwater Influencer Marketing to elevate the culture of its clients.

Gild Creative Group

Read how Gild Creative Group uses Meltwater Influencer Marketing to elevate the culture of its clients.

Find global nano-influencers in every market

Localize communications, content, and payment for influencers

Increase overseas market share with highly engaged global teams

Customer Story- Cricut.pdf

Arts and crafts is a thriving global market, valued at an estimated $30.24 billion. For U.S.-based brand Cricut, the potential to tap into international markets seemed limitless, especially in the age of content creation, TikTok videos, and Pin-spiration. 

It’s these very factors that gave influencer marketing a permanent place in the brand’s playbook, but it needed a better way to find, recruit, and manage influencers around the world.

Learn how Cricut expanded to markets around the world as a household name in crafting using the localization benefits of Meltwater Influencer Marketing.

Cricut x Meltwater Customer Story

Learn how Cricut expanded to markets around the world as a household name in crafting using the localization benefits of Meltwater Influencer Marketing

Cricut

Build a quantitive influencer scoring methodology

Enhance its influencer discovery and selection process

Implement a CRM for influencer campaign management

Boelter + Lincoln is a full-scale marketing agency, supporting clients with their range of expertise including; Influencer Marketing, Social Media, Public Relations, Media, Branding, Design, Content Creation, and Strategy. There is really no service that is off-limits for the B+L team. 

The agency specializes in supporting clients in Travel & Tourism, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Finance, and Food & Beverage. No matter the service or the industry, B+L clients will receive data-driven results. This begins with thorough research of each client’s industry and finalizes in customized strategy and results.

Learn how digital agency Boelter + Lincoln used Meltwater to establish an influencer scoring methodology.

Boelter + Lincoln

Learn how Digital Agency Boelter + Lincoln Used Meltwater to Establish an Influencer Scoring Methodology.

Identify the best influencers for its campaign.

Vet influencers to ensure they were a good fit.

Achieve phenomenal ROI for its influencer campaign.

VisitBritain was created in April 2003 to market Britain to the rest of the world and to promote and develop the visitor economy of England. Working with a wide range of partners in both the UK and overseas, the company’s mission is to grow the volume and value of tourism across the nations and regions of Britain.

Read this customer story to learn how VisitBritain gains 1.7 Million in True Reach using Meltwater Influencer Marketing.

VisitBritain x Meltwater Customer Story

VisitBritain Gains 1.7 Million in True Reach Using Meltwater Influencer Marketing

VisitBritain

Streamline its influencer discovery process

Scale up its influencer marketing activities

Manage and measure the success of influencer campaigns

"Meltwater Influencer Marketing is useful in so many ways for us. It allows us to identify authentic influencers relevant to our brand and helps us easily communicate with our partners. It's very convenient to have all influencers that we are working with on one platform."

Picsart is an all-in-one photo and video editing app with thousands of editing tools, filters, stickers, and more. They empower creators to be visual storytellers by enabling them to create, edit, remix, and share awesome content on any social platform of their choice.

Read this customer story and learn why and how Picart relies on Meltwater Influencer Marketing to sustain influencer relationships.

We have clients all over the world and here are some of their stories.